₦airaland Forum

jpphilips:
Your post reeks of foul smell of Bigotry and tribal epilepsy, with the low IQ you posess, your worth in Libya will surely be less than $200. Just watch it.

In fair play, Igbo man from SE should be the next president after the north, SW,North, SS has been there,let Igbos do also.
There are good Igbo men with good records e.g Charles Soludo, Peter Obi, Chidoka, Ekwerremadu etc

hmm

maclatunji:
Benin and the Slave Trade

The kingdom of Benin (not to be confused with the modern Republic of Benin) was amongthe earliest, longest lasting, and most active participants in the European trade on the SlaveCoast, including the trade in slaves. From "pre-European" times, Benin was one of themightiest powers on the eastern Slave Coast. The Portuguese probably reached Benin in1472, but established strong relations with the kingdom only in 1485/86, when they founded atrade “factory” at the port of Gwato.

Europeans demanded slaves from the very beginning of trade with Benin, and it was there that the Portuguese purchased their first large slave cargoes.Portugal (until the mid-16th century), the Netherlands (late 16th– early 18th centuries), andGreat Britain (mid-18th–19th centuries, culminating in the occupation of the country in 1897)successively became the dominant European powers in the Benin region, although the French,Germans, and others also intermittently established presences there. Before the mid-17th century, Benin exported slaves not only to the New World, but also to Europe and the GoldCoast.

In 1506, a slave typically cost between twelve and fifteen manillas (brass bracelets); by 1517, the price had risen to 57 manillas. After the 1520s, cowry shells replaced manillasas the most popular “money” in the slave trade (in 1522, fifty manillas were equal to 6,370cowries). Goods such as hats, beads, etc. were also bartered for slaves. From the late 16th
to the late 17th century, Benin never sold its own citizens, but only female captives (including Igbo, Sobo, Ijaw, and others) captured in war or purchased from neighboring peoples. From the mid-17th to 18th centuries, however, slaves became the principal trade “goods” acquired byEuropeans, and foreign male prisoners and eventually citizens of Benin itself were also soldabroad. In the heyday of the slave trade, Benin supplied 3,000 slaves a year. A contemporaryrelated that “The West India planters prefer the slaves of Benin … to those of any other partof Guinea…”

Source: http://www.academia.edu/1903485/Benin_and_the_Slave_Trade

You guys can be combative and boastful but know that it is not everybody that doesn't know history or their left from their right.

Somegirl1, there is the academic basis for my position. It didn't take much to figure it out, Benin had great influence over the adjoining area. It was the major power to contend with, any other Kingdom could not afford to fight it directly.

Your claim have no basis,
Any criminal can lay ambush on people and capture them even in this modern time, that does not show that this people have dominance over the people they captured, infact it shows weakness on their part unlike Bini direct rule over lagos and its environs.

In history,there is never in any book or documentary that shows that any part of Igboland is under conquest from Bini or Fulani.
The reason is that Igbo villages in the olden days are heavily fortified from the entrance and Igbos have no central king that give orders or rule over an entire region.So many empires like Bini is afraid to go eastward because you will fight the war village by village,even the Brittish saw red in Igboland.

You Africans argue alot, English and German have similar and sometimes the same words meaning the same thing, does it mean that one borrowed from the other one.
You came to this world and met your language and you are arguing wether the other one borrowed from your own.something that you dont know how it came about.

laudate:
You bear Igbo names in your locality. Are the people who bear those names, now Igbo people? Rotimi Amaechi who is the transport minister, has a Yoruba first name. Does that mean he is Yoruba? No! he is a full-blooded Ikwerre man!

The same Rotimi Amaechi you are reffering to have told you that he is an Igbo man of Ikwerre extraction, he said his father gave him the name Rotimi because the man is role model to his father.
Ikwerre in Rivers, Ika in Delta, Igbanke in Edo are all Igbo people.
Igalas are not Igbos but many are of Igbo origin, they speak Igbo and bear Igbo names, with Igbo names as the name of their villages.

laudate:
Oga, the Igbo in Kogi are not indigenous to the area. Go and speak to the indigenes in each of those local govts. It is a fallacy to say that "many Igala people are Igbos." How and when did Igala people become Igbo??

Most Igala people bear Igbo names and speak Igbo, most are Igbo migrants which are now Kogi people under Igala.
I dont do blind argument.
Bye.

laudate:
Lies! Igbo is a second language in those communities, because of the Igbo migrants who settled there.

No, they are indiginous to Kogi, many Igala people are Igbos.They migrated long time ago and occupy the place just like Okun people that migrated from Yoruba to Kogi.

AyakaDunukofia:
Ugwuebonyi, Ebokwe, Ozara, Amaeke, Amankpo, Amauwani camp, Amaokwu, Amadiefioha, Amaufulu, etc. all in Igalamela/Odolu LGA. The Odolu community in Igalamela/Odolu LGA is said to speak Igala as first language and the Nsukka Igbo dialect as second language. In Ibaji LGA, we can see some town names such as Nwajala, Umuoye, Ubulie-Umueze

They are Igala people but in actual sense they are Igbos because they bear Igbo names and speak igbo dialet but claim Igala.

jamesibor:
There is an Igbo speaking part in Kogi and Benue just like there are Igala speaking communities in Anambra.

No there is no Igbo speaking communities in Kogi, it is Benue that have that, many Igala people bear full Igbo names both surname and first name, like Chidi Egwu.

Alariiwo:
GBAM!!

They have absolutely nothing to offer.. I just laugh at their stupidity.

If not for Nigeria, they'd all be dead by now.

Their region's IGR can't even complete their second Niger bridge in 10 years. Unproductive, wretched and helpless mofos feeling funky.

, but they said that they want to be on their own with their good for nothing region.

migeoart:
Pardon my dirty mind ,but does this guy have an erection at all

Yes but not always because he takes female hormone estrogen that make his body to look more feminine and the hormone reduces penile erection in men.

The doctors get paid for their services, but some people go back to them to say thank you, church own is just thanking God, the thanks giving items will be eating by the pastors or priest, some good churches give the excess to the poor.Thanking God in terms of giving is not bad.

It is only a mad person that will call IPOB a terrorist organization, under UN charter they have right to self determination and referendum will solve the agitation for Biafra issue

Alariiwo:
Can you just see yourself now?

So you're waiting for others to chase you till you do the right thing. Why not leave honorably to your region and see if they won't take you serious.
Ya'll are only jokers, nothing more

Let them have a country of their own Biafra,[/b] you people should be man enough and show that you can survive without this people[b], is as if they have Biafra all you people will die of hunger, I cannot be so lily-livered like you people.

Alariiwo:
Really?

Am I the one running to other people's land to stay and drag their resources with them? Or they told you I give a damn about that sh.ithole erosion enclave?

Why didn't you honour Arewa's quit notice and leave the North peacefully? Why did your elders beg?

Stop fooling yourself, it's your people that can't let go of Nigeria. No amount of cheap blackmail can change that.

[/b]I will not exchange words with gullible people of shithole country because you are the foolish one here[b],you know the truth,how can you give a quit notice to your fellow country men and how can you restrict free movement of people within the citizens of the same country,[/b]grant them Biafra and chase them away from your country if you are man enough and stop showing your uneducated foolish mentality to the world[b].

Alariiwo:
As we all know, the Nigerian court of law has affirmed the proscription of an upcoming terrorist organization in the South Eastern part of the country.

This group has threatened to burn down the country which they foolishly refer to as zoo but still hustle for jobs and roam about freely in search of food and shelter.

They threatened to kill Adeboye, Oyedepo and other Yoruba pastors if they step foot in the East. We're still waiting for them to make true their words.

They bought arms and ammunitions from Turkey which they tried to smuggle into the country to wreck havoc on unsuspecting Nigerians, but thanks to Nigerian Customs, they all got exposed.

Now my question is.. Nnamdi Kanu that jumped bail, what will happen to him if he gets caught again?
Will FG return his Nigerian and British passports to him now that he is a certified terrorist to Nigeria??

Let's hear your views

[/b]BE man enough to have your own country with your people[b],stop sounding as if you cannot survive without Biafrans,it is a shame!!

IPOB is not terrorist organization outside Nigeria
Fulani herdsmen is a terrorist organization outside Nigeria and it is world 4th deadliest terrorist group

[/b]See low life parasites that cannot survive on their own rejoicing[b], Biafra Independence give them HBP because they have nothing to offer except been lazy ass parasites in a shithole country

King44:
How could yoruba nation be so comfortable with unfavorable condition I still can't believe that yorubas in ilorin are comfortable having emir we are so comfortable with any unfavorable situation we find ourselves assuming there would be secession today I wonder where ilorin will fall m if they will be stupid to go with the North cos of their forefathers mistake, am a yoruba n that is what I have observed so far

[/b]Is Ilorin not part of North central, Kwarra State is already part of conquered territory by Fula led Sokoto caliphate[b].The British fell to help Yorubas to recapture it when they attempted to do that during colonial rule. Yorubas in ilorin are helpless because if they attempt to dethrone the emir the fulani elite will send their machineries to massacre them.Their forefathers try it and fail,the fulanis dont let go their conquered territory easily without a heavy war.

Nawa ooo

Macelliot:
Fool.

Yorubas, wake up. This is Eye opening to expecially the Yoruba people. don't repeat the mistakes of your fore-fathers.
I am not exhibiting any form of tribalism, but the asslicking and slavish nature of "SOME" Yorubas are one of the reasons we are in this tough situation. I mentioned the Yorubas because they are a MAJOR ethnic group. Benue state is already a conquered region.
In the future, if I tell my grandchildren that I was opportuned to choose between being part of a Biafra Republic or living under the Fulani caliphate? (Note: I not an IPOB, neither do I support the separatist)
Guess what, my grandchildren would smile knowing that I Chose the right decision.

I wonder what the educated youths from Benue are doing?
I am not tribalistic, but sometimes Truth are bitter "The worst thing that ever happened to the people of Benue, Nassarawa, Plateau, Adamawa is the Nigerian geographical entity called NORTH

Deep

Naturalobserver:
Na igbo girl na.....d toasting line shouldn't be far fetched
Davido: 30 billion for the account ooo,versace nd gucci.......
Chioma: you say?
Davido: versace and gucci for ur body o baby
Chioma:no no no no, sing that first part
Davido:30 billion for......
Chioma:yes yes yes yes, am all urs.

poor man mentality

rawpadgin:
Nne has become David's hand bag

That's what happens wen u are dating a girl who doesn't have a life of her own

She for nor dey follow davido like fly dey follow person wey dey purge if she be student, gainfully employed or has a business of her own

You talking as if your sister get such opportunity she will not dive at it,hypocrites dem ,owon werre ni

IYANGBALI:
Look Nigeria o! When the National Security Council meet and in attendance are Dan Alli (minister of defence), Dambazzau (Internal affairs), Daura (DSS), Magu (EFCC), Buratai (Army Chief), Idris (Police IGP), Abubakar (Nig. Intelligence Agency), Malami (Attorney General), Mongunu National Security Adviser) seat to discuss national security issues. In what language do they discuss and do they discuss Nigeria security? Shame of a nation in the 21st century.

You Yorubas are behind it, your people argued that he selected the best people that can do the job.
Lets see how Buhari will be defeated in 2019 after all security apparatus in the hand of the core north with his relative as Inec chairman.

No words to fulani herdsmen the real killers.